Balancing your media

The media balancing function enables you to balance the number of media owned by each system within a BRMS network so that each system has the required number of media.

This function requires that the system is running IBM i 6.1, or later. End of change

To balance media across systems in a BRMS network, follow these steps:

If using System i® Navigator expand Backup, Recovery, and Media Services > Media. If using IBM® Systems Director select Backup, Recovery, and Media Services
Select Volumes > Manage volume balancing action item.
Select Add action item to add BRMS systems to participate in media balancing.
On the Add Available Systems for Media Balancing page, enter the name of the system, its associated media pool and location, and set a priority for this system as well as the number of required media that it uses for save operations. Prioritizing your systems ensures that those system with more critical data have the necessary media to complete the save operations.
Select OK to add the system to the list of systems that will balance media among them.
From the Manage Volume Balancing page, run media balancing for all the selected systems by selecting Balance Volumes for All Systems action item. You can also run a report that shows the results of balancing your media among these systems.